Re: Heaven, hell, and the afterlife
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And, if there was some hypothetical way to prove, beyond any doubt, that we simply cease to exist at death, and that heaven, hell and the afterlife do not exist - would that knowledge make you stop believing in God? In other words, how much is religious faith connected to the belief in some form of eternal life after we die?
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To me it would be essential. (I should point out that I'm an atheist). But to me, belief in a god without the belief in a transcendental soul is effective atheism, or at least agnosticism. That's because this god shouldn't, or couldn't possible IMO, have any effect on the believer's life. That is, of course, if we define 'god' in a christian sense.
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